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Your Eco-Arsenal: Vinegar

Vinegar is a safe, environmentally friendly product that can be used in so many ways around your home. It will reduce the number of chemicals that you purchase (and release into the air), the amount of packaging (choose large glass or plastic bottles that can be recycled, and it will even reduce the amount of money you spend. Here is a guide to the many uses for vinegar and what it can replace around your home. Produce washes While plain water used to be fine for rinsing produce, studies have shown that using water alone, even with a scrub brush, … Continue reading →

Mop Your Floor and Save

With so many of the convenient floor cleaning gadgets, devices and services in the world, you can easily spend almost as much on floor cleaning products in a year as you do on entertainment or eating out; maybe even more than food, depending on how much you cook at home. There are disposable products that last fora few cleaning before having to be replaced, and there are machine you can by. With all of the expense, you might even be tempted to forego the floor cleaning all together. I used to know a mom of a five-year-old who never, ever … Continue reading →

The Cheap Way to Use Your Swiffer

Why spent a lot maintaining those fancy kitchen floor systems? From Clorox to Swiffer, it seems like there is always a new way to clean your kitchen floor. Here is a secret of mine. I love those swiffer wet mops. They are so much easier to use than the traditional bucket and pail, but the cleaning solution and the replacement pads can get pretty expensive. I was buying the supplies by bulk, but I was also going through those supplies pretty quickly. I started to notice that the supplies were affecting our budget, but I didn’t want to give up … Continue reading →

Make Your Own Bathroom Cleanser

Learn to make your own tub cleanser for a frugal alternative to a commercial cleanser. It just costs a few pennies and is so easy to make. You know those scrubbing powders that come in a cardboard tube with a shaker top? Well, it isn’t hard to make your own version that works just as well but is a lot cheaper to use. You can use this cleanser for your tub, tile, toilet and sink. While it does have some scrubbing powder, it isn’t too abrasive, and I have never seen this home made cleanser scratch any bathroom surface. In … Continue reading →

Spring Beauty Tips

Spring has sprung! The trees are in bloom… and it’s time for you to bloom too. Are you ready to turn your best face towards the sun? These beauty tips can help rejuvenate you all over! Keep your skin soft by reducing the amount of soap you use. Most of the body can get clean with just a rinse; focus your soap on the face, underarms, feet, groin, and rear end. Use a mesh puff to apply soap, rather than the bar itself — the soap will foam more so you can lather up well with less. Always soap up … Continue reading →

Three Frugal Ways to Remove Soap Scum

Bam, Pow, Wham! Don’t buy expensive soap scum cleaners when you have three frugal options that will do the job for a lot less. In the home we used to have, we had a combined shower and tub, and regular normal cleaning of the wall prevented any soap scum build up. In our current home, we have a master bathroom that contains a shower stall with glass shower doors. Unfortunately, the soap scum can build up pretty quickly on those doors, even with regular cleaning. Don’t ask me why the soap scum is doing this. Perhaps it is because of … Continue reading →

Home Chore List: Daily Chores Extra Credit

Have you been keeping up with your daily chores? How have they been working for you? I am happy to say that at the moment, most of my downstairs is in pretty good shape. To review, here are the list of daily chores that we have been following: Make the beds Put dirty clothes in the hamper Clean up daily spills Wash the dishes Wipe the kitchen. You can get the details of the how and why by reading the earlier articles, Home Chore List: Daily Cleaning Chores (1), and Home Chore List: Daily Cleaning Chores (2). There are some … Continue reading →

Introducing Frugal Cleaning!

It is an exciting time here at the Frugal Living Blog. That is because we have a new category called Frugal Cleaning. I am so glad that we have added this, since there are so many great ways to save money while cleaning your home and your belongings. I’m sure we will be adding even more articles about frugal cleaning soon, so check back often. Meanwhile, here are a bunch of great tips and tricks to get you inspired. Clean That Bathroom for Free! Today I’m going to tell you about a free way to clean your bathroom and get … Continue reading →

Save Money When Cleaning Wood

I have a little trick for you that I think you are going to like. If you have wood in your house to clean, such as trim, doors, panelling and furniture, you can take advantage of this idea. I’m always at a loss when it comes to cleaning wood. I’ve tried so many different products. In fact, there is a whole collection of things sitting on one of my shelves down in the basement, next to my regular stockpile. I’m always so worried that some cleaners might be too harsh for the wood, and others I have tried just don’t … Continue reading →

Frugal Cleaning: Using Lemons

Put those lemons to good use in your cleaning to save $$$$! Who doesn’t like the scent of lemons in a nice clean house? Practically every commercial cleaner out there on the market has a version that contains a lemon scent. Sometimes the scent is not just lemon, but “fresh lemon.” I have even seen a cleaner with the scent of a “fresh lemon breeze.” I’m not sure how breezes get to be lemon scented. Perhaps they hold the lemons up to the kitchen window? Regardless, there is a reason behind the lovely scent of lemons in cleaning solutions. Not … Continue reading →